I’ve gotten a few of them. I’m pretty certain they are spam or will be spam in the future. I block them.

If someone else has a better understanding of who/what they are, feel free to let me know too.

You’re right (link in this post works). It still fails when I try and use the link in the original post. Weird.

Copying, as you might not be able to see PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus response:

Dbzer0 is silenced on the piefed.social instance. I believe that you should (edit: not!) be able to read this comment (I’m not on dbzer0 but my instance is also Silenced 😆, so if you can’t see a dbzer0 user, you can’t see me too).

Edit: missed a punctuation.

.zip admins do make changes to the code (ex. removed the vote limiter). So they may have gone in and removed or altered the list.

As a slight clarification, Rimu specifically confirmed the change (voting restrictions) were not due to bandwidth concerns, but rather to curtail certain users from voting “too much”.

Also, confirmed the users in questions were not bots, just user who voted a lot (I’m in that category). My instance removed the limiter within a couple days of the update being implemented.

Maybe check out NodeBB. My recollection is that it’s a federated server software for forums that can interface with at least Mastodon and Piefed (probably Lemmy and Mbin too).

I believe I’ve seen some content from a forum in the past, but it’s tough to tell, as I think they just show up the same as any other threadiverse instance (a post in a community on an instance).

I’m not sure how you’d search for them though…

Fair point about aosp, although given Samsung’s recent change to lock the bootloader (oneUI 8.0) and Google’s moves against side loading, I’m not optimistic about other manufactures not following suit and locking the bootloader.

I think most people are not going to jump through the hoops of installing a custom ROM and the increase of interest in custom roms is and will be too negligible to most large manufacturers. To this point, supposedly, Samsung sold more locked bootloader phones than the previous unlocked phones (Galaxy S26 v S25).

I can see the lockdown as beneficial to the companies, if they are getting something out of it (like telemetry) that they can make more money off of.

To your Windows/Linux point, I believe that Windows activates a option (fast-boot?) that screws up Linux instillations. So, while they may not have locked it down, they do hinder it. Plus Windows would probably receive major backlash from the server folks/companies, if they tried to lock the motherboard previously (as, to my knowledge, the vast majority of servers are running Linux).

Yeah, I could definitely see a small manufacturer provide a limited stock, ready for custom roms.

I’m not very familiar with the space, but locked bootloaders seem to be very location and service specific (I read somewhere all of Canada is locked down).

I think we mostly agree too. I think I’m definitely the more pessimistic of the two of us. My thinking is there are still millions of people still on twitter, even after it became infested by Nazis. In my view, most people are tired and have limited time for their own pursuits. I don’t think they will spend their time jumping through additional hoops, unless they absolutely have to.

Apologizes, I should have been clearer. I think you are totally right in that there with be a jump/boost at and right after the lockdown.

I think at this moment, there is the highest number of eligible devices (unlocked bootloader) and it will essentially only go down from there in the short to mid term.

After the lockdown boost to custom roms, I think the custom android ROM user numbers will drop. My thinking is based on new phones being locked from now on. I don’t think it’ll be all new phones after the new year, but I’d guess the majority and it’ll be pretty rare to have an unlocked bootloader out of the box after the lockdown (with exceptions like Motorola and graphene, or Fairphone/similar).

I think you are definitely right about Linux being further behind in development and being able to be a daily driver. And accordingly most new switches from android in the near-term will go to custom android ROMs.

However, from my view, developers can choose between continuing to develop a custom ROM that’s dependent on google and proprietary blobs that, to my understanding, they will always be dependent on and beholden to (who knows the next trick they’ll pull to cripple custom ROMs). Or, they can work on development that doesn’t have those dependences (Linux).

Due to the proprietary blobs and google, I think, Linux is more viable mid- and long-term.

My personal opinion is that custom android Roms are going to die slowly after google locks down android.

If you’re open to it, you might want to look into Linux phones. Specifically Fairphone 6 with PostMarketOS. It’s not quite there, but it’s close and they are actively working on the last couple hardware issues. Sounds like it should be ready within a month or so.

This thread talks more about it:

https://threadiverse.link/piefed.zip/comment/6553012

You might be interested in the Pylova Piefed fork. It’s from the contributor that this post about Rimu deleting the other side of the story is from (Quokka).

I haven’t had many interactions with either of them (Rimu and Quokka), but if I had guess which is the problematic one in a situation is, I’d guess Rimu.

I think of history as a story, but understand if these are not what you’re looking for:

Revolutions by Mike Duncan, or if you are more interested in Rome, The History of Rome by Mike Duncan.

Thanks for looking into it. It looks like the issue is on the Piefed side of things:

https://threadiverse.link/piefed.social/comment/12485633

Yeah, it definitely feels, to me, like the current world/society is built to be competitive rather than cooperative :(

I would suggest a few things. First, be genuinely open minded to the discussion/topic (as in your opinion can change with a good enough argument.

Second, I would suggest using “feeling” language as much as possible. Examples are: “I feel like that will cause an issue with…”, “my understanding is…”, “my thoughts are…”, “from what I’ve seen/read the setup is …”, etc. From my perspective, feeling language lowers the “absoluteness” of statements and makes conversions easier by changing them from arguing absolute truths, to discussing lived experiences.

Third would be to reframe the discussion/argument from “you vs them” to the two of you vs a problem/issue and you both are working together to find the answer. This somewhat goes with being open minded.

Fourth, I don’t think works too well in online discussions, but in person I find starting from a base situation and asking the other person their thoughts on it, and adding your own, works well. So, start with a base situation and then adding a little complexity each time you both agree on the outcome and reasoning. Once you’ve found your divergence point you can start having your discussion about the pros/cons of different approaches/solutions to that specific situation.

My understanding, using the federation-email analogy, defederation is like yahoo mail and gmail users not being able to send and receive emails from each other. In this case lemmy.world and lemmy.ml can’t see each others users/communities/posts/comments/votes (someone can correct me if I’m mistaken about any part).

Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz just made a post about instance defederations. TL:DR of the post is only 3 instances/servers have any significant defederation (>5%). 2 “tankie” instances (lemmygrad.ml [67%] and hexbear.net [64%]) and the porn instance (fedinsfw.app [13%]).

No worries :)

• Not sure we have a Hobbydrama, but it’s also not my interest, so I could have blocked it.
• Cursedcrochet looks fun. We have an active knitting community, but probably not enough activity/users for a specific “cursedcrochet” community at this point. Also have a semi-active leatherwork community, if that’s of interest.
• Wunkus seems great. I think the closest match we may have would be Scrungy Cats, but there could be communities I don’t know about.
• Also, in a different comment someone mentioned the solarpunk communities (basically anything on the slrpnk.net instance), I’m a big fan of those, and think they’re worth checking out.

The threadiverse (roughly the reddit-like part of the fediverse) is pretty small (~43k MAU), so if something doesn’t exist and you want it to, your probably going to have to start and build it yourself.

I was kind of off-put by that initially, but I kind of like it now. It’s kind of like building your own little space and people can come check it out and see what you’ve been building and contribute if they feel like it. I created fedilytics (Fediverse-Analytics) a couple months ago because I was curious how the fediverse was doing. It’s not particularly active with other people (got first non-me post yesterday!), but I mostly built it for myself and enjoy anytime someone stops in to talk in the comments.

If you do decide to make a community in the future, I’d suggest making the post in the community and then cross-posting it, to a larger relevant community, to increase traffic to your post (as many people just stick to their subscribed feed).

If you provide some of your interests/hobbies, we can probably be more helpful.

That being said, I think these are a few active and interesting communities:

• Superb Owl
• Linux Phones
• Gardening

Regarding places to avoid, I don’t think anyplace needs to be avoided, per say. Politics can be problematic, if you go into those posts.

There’s no real algorithm, so you need to curate your own feed. In general, I’d suggest, if you see a community that could interest you, just subscribe. You can always unsubscribe later (if it turns out not to be what you want), but getting a denser “good stuff” home feed is beneficial.

By the same token, I’d suggest blocking communities you have zero interest in (helps filtering, so you come across more content you are interested in when browsing “All”). If you run into a problematic user, report (if they have done something reportable), block, and move on.

If 2 communities are posting the same content and you get tired of seeing double, I’d suggest removing the community from the bigger or flagship instance (ex. Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, Piefed.Social).

This would have the effect of distributing the communities across the threadiverse rather than having them bunch up on a few. A problem with bunching can be if an instance goes down, they take their users/communities with them. Most of the medium/large instances in the threadiverse are stable, but it has happened in the past (Lemm.ee).

My understanding is this should be much less of a problem in the future, they are working on making user profiles and communities transferable between instances/servers.

Note: there is an active autism community, if that’s of interest to you.

I’m a bit confused.

You can’t access the post because you were banned from Lemmy.world for posting in wholesome Yuri? Or something else?

If you can’t see it because of a ban, you can try opening the post in a unlogged in browser. You wouldn’t be able to comment, but you should be able to see it.

Hmm, that’s weird. Both work for me, but I just added a link via piefed.zip, so you can try that one.

Otherwise, I’d say just search for it in the fediverse.world community, should be easy to find.

My understanding is threadiverse links allow you to go to a post via your own instance, rather than opening a new tab/window/browser.

Some clients can handle threadiverse links, some can’t. Usually I put both in, but didn’t this time.

Glad you were able to find it though.